Legal Question in Employment Law in Virginia
In March of 2010 my former employer "suspended" my employment based upon two Human Resources situations. One was from September of last year. I was confronted by an employee, I did manage, who was bringing up a case of sexual harassment against another male employee. I was documented with a corrective for not reporting it to corporate HR but to my immediate manager. In March of 2010, another employee wrote a statement about a conversation between two other associates that she felt was inappropriate. The conversation was late at night AFTER the building was closed to the public. I reported it the next day to my immediate manager and was again documented with a corrective. During this time frame myself and another assistant manager found evidence that our manager was stealing time from the company and reported it. I was "suspended" because of the incidents as they put it to me and my employment terminated two weeks later. I think it was because of the theft issue with the unit manager that I reported and that issue was brought up during my suspension meeting. Is it legal for them to do this?
1 Answer from Attorneys
Yes, (if you mean terminating you) unless you were working under the protection
of a contract or collective bargaining type of agreement at the time.